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Since kb3000850 installed itself on my Dell Win8 laptop, Chrome launches with MSN every time I boot my machine, no doubt to make sure all my tracking cookies are up to date. The chrome startup settings are clean. I've found and removed the dell.msn.com url from the default page setting in my system internet settings. I've installed and run Autoruns, and can't see anything that points to chrome. Does anyone have tips for how to locate and stop this?

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    Possible duplicate of MSN homepage opens whenever my internet goes down
    – DavidPostill ♦
    Apr 29, 2016 at 12:38
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    Disable HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NlaSvc\Parameters\Internet\EnableActiveProbing - set to 0
    – DavidPostill ♦
    Apr 29, 2016 at 12:39
  • Is Chrome your default browser? If so, any URL will open it. Try some of the other tools in the SysInternals Suite: procexp will show you Chrome's parent process (if still running), and procmon will monitor registry and file accesses, with an option for boot logging.
    – AFH
    Apr 29, 2016 at 12:45
  • @DavidPostill - Crossed with you yet again! Your suggestion seems a good one, though I checked on Win10 and I found that the registry entry you cite is set to 1, but I don't get the problem. Maybe they changed the probing in the update from Win8.
    – AFH
    Apr 29, 2016 at 12:59
  • Is MSN your homepage? Are there any entries in your Startup folder? Have you checked Task Scheduler for a task that might cause this? And finally, are you on a domain and/or do you have Group Policy on your machine?
    – InterLinked
    Apr 29, 2016 at 13:00

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